PERMISSIONS POST

[drama8om8]

So Octavia now has Vriska's old powers of mind control. Fortunately (?), she's not very good at using them yet! This is where you get to dictate how good she is at using them on your characters, should she ever want to attempt it.

(It's also where you get to say "keep your mitts off my brain, spiderhag, don't even try it.")

Since canon itself has basically said "you know all those rules we had about Vriska's powers? Rules are for losers let's contradict every single one of them," the only restriction I'll put on potential victims is that robots and animals are 100% immune. Everyone else is as immune as they want to be (and anyone who doesn't comment here will be assumed to have immunity).

Finally, even if you're up for mind control generally I will always ask first before actually doing it in a thread, and the option to make it fail is always a thing. Even characters who are completely susceptible to being controlled can shake it off if they try hard enough: the control actually presents itself as a very strong mental suggestion.

OKAY THAT SAID. Please fill out the following!

<b>Character:</b> <user name="USERNAME HERE"> <b>Is it okay for Octavia to attempt mind controlling them?</b> <b>How difficult is she likely to find it?</b> (Factors that might make it harder for her include how strong-willed your character is and any natural resistances they might have to such things.)

Thanks a lot!

Comments

[goodboybestshot]

Character: Thad Atterberry | Jake English goodboybestshot
Is it okay for Octavia to attempt mind controlling them? Yes please
How difficult is she likely to find it? In canon Jake is hideously easy to bait and he's pretty fucking gullible so I am going to say yes, it's probably super goddamn easy for her to control Thad.

[respecting]

Character: Daisukenojo "Beat" Bito | respecting
Is it okay for Octavia to attempt mind controlling them? Yes!
How difficult is she likely to find it? At first, it will be a PIECE OF CAKE because he is dumb as bricks and his will is only so-so.

However, there are echos that could potentially strengthen his will, and if he gets back his Player Pin, it will then be completely impossible as blocking mental suggestions/mind control is one of its specific powers!

[summit]

Character: travros summit
Is it okay for Octavia to attempt mind controlling them? YES YES YES YES yeeeeeees
How difficult is she likely to find it? MAYBE A LITTLE HARDER THAN IN CANON but unless she tries to get him to do something that he absolutely would not ever ever ever do the dude can easily be a puppet

[hopediesalone]

Character: Raul Light hopediesalone
Is it okay for Octavia to attempt mind controlling them? ttttentative yes
How difficult is she likely to find it? Raul is one of the most stubborn douchebags you are ever likely to meet and that's only gonna get worse. If it's for something simple and stupid, she'll probably manage it, but for something harder (like, say, the thread that prompted this) he's gonna realize something is up and fight back.

Once his brain isn't so squishy, immune of course.

[two_stones]

Character: Sara/Mamizou two_stones
Is it okay for Octavia to attempt mind controlling them? If the situation (read: hilariousness) calls for it.
How difficult is she likely to find it? Well Sara is at present a plain ol' human, but she's gonna be turning into a tanuki, which I guess falls under animal???

[songoftimeandtimeagain]

Character: Luke Kokiren (Link) songoftimeandtimeagain
Is it okay for Octavia to attempt mind controlling them? Yeah, sure go for it. Mind controlling and being Not Happy about being mind controlled are things I would definitely be in the mood for.
How difficult is she likely to find it? NOT VERY. At least at first. He's ten and when someone says collect these chickens 'jump' he tends to say how high.

[grannyfucker]

Character: JOVAN/NATHAN grannyfucker
Is it okay for Octavia to attempt mind controlling them? Yes, for sure.
How difficult is she likely to find it? I...honestly have no idea if it would be funnier to give her free reign over him, or to have him be mysteriously immune to it.

[drama8om8]

There's a character who's canonically only vulnerable to it half the time and MYSTERIOUSLY IMMUNE the rest of the time so YOU CAN GO FOR THAT DEAL IF YOU WANT YO

not that she can try it anyway until she knows who he is her life is suffering and I love it

[grannyfucker]

THAT SOUNDS FANTASTIC AND LIKE THE BEST ROUTE FOR MAXIMUM COMEDIC EFFECT

(and this is precisely why he intends to stay anon on the network for as long as possible)

(no it's not)

(but it's a factor)

[tenaciousc]

Character: Michelle/Chell tenaciousc
Is it okay for Octavia to attempt mind controlling them? Yep.
How difficult is she likely to find it? Average to a little tough to start out with, but likely to become significantly harder once she gets echoes and starts becoming more Chell-like. 99th-percentile tenacity, yo.

[stagnantair]

i just realized i never did this

Character: toobigstagnantair
Is it okay for Octavia to attempt mind controlling them? Yes for Bertholdt; Yes for Gavin until he gets his AI/emotionless husk Echoes back!
How difficult is she likely to find it? Bertholdt'd probably be pretty easy, considering he's push over mcgee. Gavin will be tough though, he's super strong willed and opinionated lol.

[wastingtime]

Character: wastingtime
Is it okay for Octavia to attempt mind controlling them? Go ahead and try~
How difficult is she likely to find it? OLD MAN IS OLD AND STUBBORN but still has certain naivity. I'm gonna call it that 'if it doesn't go against something he'd normally do, then by all means it'll be pie'.
...so basically as if this was a d20 campaign and she was casting suggestion.

[umbrael]

Character: umbrael
Is it okay for Octavia to attempt mind controlling them? yes please it'll be funny

How difficult is she likely to find it? Right now it'd be as easy as any other human, but it'll get start getting harder as he echoes back into an ancient dinosaur god.
That, uh, that's going to take a long time, though and you could still do it when his guard is down anyway hahah he'd be so mad

[dragon_blossom]

Character: dragon_blossom
Is it okay for Octavia to attempt mind controlling them? Yupyup.
How difficult is she likely to find it? The more Umi Marina gets, the harder it'll be, given that supreme willpower is a big deal with Magic Knights.

Also getting mind-controlled could give her an echo so this might actually be a good thing!

[siesinddasessen]

Character: siesinddasessen
Is it okay for Octavia to attempt mind controlling them? Y
How difficult is she likely to find it? She's pretty darn strong willed, but I don't think there are any other things that would make it hard on Octavia so.

Character: hustru
Is it okay for Octavia to attempt mind controlling them? Y
How difficult is she likely to find it? Right now it should be fairly easy, she's not easily swayed but a pretty anxious person so I assume her will falls somewhere on the low to medium spectrum... But once she starts to regain her nation mind, attempting to take control of her mind or even enter it is something that would drive humans insane and idk it would work for non-nation non-humans but I think it could still create all kinds of issues.

[dead_black_eyes]

Character: Lazarus "L" Lawliet dead_black_eyes
Is it okay for Octavia to attempt mind controlling them? She can absolutely attempt it!
How difficult is she likely to find it? I have no objections to this as a player; I think that Lazarus has spent so much time being told what to do by his uncle and doctors that his will is at least malleable enough for this to work to an extent. But his mind itself isn't in the best shape; though he's very much a genius, he lives with mental illness, and I imagine those two things together can make his brain a kind of scary and even painful place to be, even for him.

Tl;dr go for it! But maybe be prepared for some broken commands and faulty manifestations of Vriska's will getting lost in translation.

[oncedevil]

Character: Anthony Sparado oncedevil
Is it okay for Octavia to attempt mind controlling them? Considering that I love being terrible yes. If a situation ever arises where Tony needs to punch himself in the jaw I totally endorse it.
How difficult is she likely to find it? Well once he's further down the demon tree that's going to be increasingly difficult and prone to emergency forcefully throwing her out reactions. UNTIL THEN HOWEVER he's a perfectly normal teenage boy without a particularly focused or powerful mind so HAVE AT IT.